baking

243/365 Only eight days ’til the Pedal For Scotland

August 31, 2013 By Ellen

This time next Sunday it’ll all be over. Boy Two, Supergran, Supersister, Step Mum and a few thousand others will have pedalled 47 miles from Glasgow to Edinburgh. Last year Fabulous Deb made Nanaimo bars to keep sustained along the way. Sadly she can’t join us this time as she’s recovering from coming out […]

Bye bye baking boy – when Aspies move on

March 5, 2013 By Ellen

For a year or so, we’ve been in the grip of a baking obsession. Or at least Boy One has. It started – like so many of his fixations – with some adverts for a part work magazine. This one was about baking, and along with the recipes you got biscuit cutters, icing guns and […]

The problem with baking…

February 14, 2013 By Ellen

Pie a little lacking in banana so more Offee than anything else The baking issue right there Crispie cakes Is that there’s all this delicious stuff just asking to be scoffed. I know this seems blindingly obvious, but it’s true. The more I bake, the more I eat. Sigh.To start with the baking is all […]

Healthy eating takes the biscuit

January 29, 2013 By Ellen

This has to have been the longest January in the history of Januarys and it’s still not over yet. However, I’m still sticking to my healthy(ish) eating campaign for the Boys and I. Obviously the ideal foodstuff would be tasty, wholesome (ie not processed or full of chemicals) and not fattening. It would also provide slow release […]

Junior bake off – my boy says shoo to the pastry bicycle

December 13, 2012 By Ellen

Boy One with James Morton There was much excitement this Sunday. There was a celebrity in our midst. You could tell something was happening by the number of people whose casual weekend morning attire was arranged with feverish precision.And the reason for all this tastefully styled Boden… the BBC Great British Bake Off runner up James […]